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JonFreeman #wingnut #ableist

In my experience, accusations of mental illness are the immediate liberal's response to someone disagreeing with them.

And if this was, say 2010, I would agree that this was overused and problematic. Today? Doesn’t happen nearly as often, and usually gets smacked down by fellow leftists. Meanwhile on the Right they’ve been all too free to dismiss inconvenient people on their side as “mentally ill lone wolves”, though that rhetoric seems to have been fading somewhat in the last couple years.

Unless you’re referring to calling people “narcissist”, “narc”, “n-type”, or even just “N”, which is mostly abuse survivor language referring toxic/abusive people in general, not necessarily ones with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It’s not specifically a liberal thing (conservative abuse survivors use this language as well) but it shouldn’t be used in political discourse regardless.

Just like how they view all humans to be minerals waiting to be harvested.

Just spitballing here, but this reminds me of the rhetoric that left-wing politicians don’t care about minorities, they just pander to them for donations and votes. Even ignoring the fact that some such politicians themselves are minorities (it varies by country, but the Left tends to look a lot closer to a cross-section of the population than the Right does) that’s more of a lack of imagination on your part than anything resembling reality.

Alexander Kamkin #conspiracy #crackpot #dunning-kruger #fundie #magick #racist #ableist

Hecate, the goddess of death

I’m assuming you’re confusing her with Hel. If so, that’s not even from the same mythology.

Mark Oshinskie #wingnut #quack #ableist

Also, this comes weirdly close to “your ancestors didn’t suffer so that you could have a good life!”

Lev #magick #ufo #conspiracy

“A nation with a history of being wracked by earthquakes is wracked by an earthquake! Oh noes, it must be tectonic weapons.” It’s called fracking, you idiot.

While there’s some discussion to be had whether Turkey has been reckless with fracking (they started doing so in 2019) and might have triggered this one, the OP seems to have missed the bigger story which people are talking about - a whole lot of buildings which supposedly were complying with seismic building codes collapsed, which strongly suggests most of them actually weren’t.

Mark Oshinskie #wingnut #quack #ableist

Everything @Yutolia said, plus: Just because people faced severe hardships didn’t make them emotionally strong. Some of them became emotionally broken, or emotionally dead, or actually dead (via suicide or reckless behavior). Being forced to give the appearance of strength to survive isn’t the same as actual strength. Stoicism may have often been a necessary virtue for some societies to function in their then-current state, but that doesn’t make it an objectively good thing.

Andrew Bridgen, conservative MP for North West Leicestershire #quack

I would like to point out that this is stupid because no vaccine existed until September 2021, and the majority of people weren’t vaccinated until early 2022. Deaths went *down* starting October 2021. Okay, it did severely spike in some places early/mid January 2022 because people had been reckless during Christmas and/or New Years, but if you look at 2021 and only 2021, it’s going to very clearly show the exact opposite of what you’re hoping to find.

@bernie_eee & @JackSpangle #transphobia

I checked whether this was based on an actual event, and apparently yes it was. Or rather, two separate events.

British pro kickboxer Tara Wolf was accused of assaulting a woman in 2017 and went on trial in 2018 - she was convicted, but was only lightly punished because this was ordinary physical assault and not sexual assault, let alone rape. There was some controversy about whether the accuser should be allowed to deadname and misgender her (“I knew him as a man and still think of him as one”). It’s not clear (from the news sources I found) whether she was actually forced to address her properly or whether she felt like she had to in order to not torpedo her chances of winning the trial, only that she really would rather have not.

The other event was Isla Bryson, who was accused of raping a woman in 2020, and then started her transition some time after. Unlike the previous incident, both the courts and her accuser freely and repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered her, against her protestations. The argument (by the court in question) was that she was presenting as male at the time of the rape and thus her past self should be described accordingly. She was also convicted and sent to prison last month; the main controversy involved in the case was whether she should be sent to a women’s prison (she was).

The specific combination of “forbidden to misgender their rapist in court” remains theoretical at time of writing, so you can’t claim that it’s already happened. That being said, the issue is a can of worms on at least two different levels.

Missouri Republicans #wingnut

@JeanP #156160

Essentially, the law as written is ambiguous on whether minors can open-carry unsupervised; someone wrote a bill which would make alterations to clarify that they can’t; the bill was voted down and Missouri Republicans affirmed that it should be interpreted as “yes, they can”. However, given that it’s still ambiguous as written, this means that the courts will eventually need to determine it once it comes up. That affirmation does mean that it will come up in courts sooner rather than later (because it will encourage certain people to act as if that were definitely how things work) and also make it more likely to be ruled that it does indeed work that way.

Laura Wood #racist #sexist

Something which these people don’t seem to get - while “high quality of life” and “population growth” aren’t mutually exclusive, they are somewhat at odds with each other. Likewise, while I don’t feel like checking to make sure, I suspect that this one also promotes hyper-capitalism, which is also at odds with those things (because it promotes career over family, and promotes misery as an economic driver).

I will also point out that a lot of African and Middle Eastern countries aren’t “sending their migrants home”, at least not in the sense that they’re probably imagining. What’s going on is that unregulated industries are luring immigrants with promises of good pay, reneging on those promises and making it near impossible to leave the country or find other work, and then only deporting them once their bodies are “used up” (too physically and/or mentally broken to do the work any more) and not necessarily to wherever they originally came from. Or, occasionally, disposing of their corpses. This is basically non-criminalized or even legalized trafficking. To be fair, this is not characteristic of every country in that part of the world, nor is it necessarily worse than what happens elsewhere; it’s mostly just more legal, more common, and less secretive. You occasionally hear about a bunch of migrant workers being mass-deported, but that’s nearly always because a large-scale construction project was completed and they were no longer needed, not because anything fundamentally changed.

Brendan O’Neill #transphobia

“Better than [biological] women” originated in the same place as “the third sex” and “best of both worlds” - industrial porn. Industrial porn isn’t a good indicator of social attitudes about *anything* excepting that of the people who run the industry (and only a very small portion of the performers have any meaningful input on the industry), and to a lesser extent of people who watch far too much of it. It’s definitely not an attitude which the medical community or the medical industry is pushing.

Which does tie into the part about womanhood-as-costume; I’ve long known and often stated that these types define “womanhood” in terms of birth anatomy combined with certain shared struggles/experiences, and they get really gatekeepy about it. What I hadn’t put two-and-two together on until this moment was the part where the same sort of misaimed empathy which causes them to consider their concept/experience of womanhood to be universal for all people who they define as “real women” also causes them to see trans women as being influenced by the capitalistic social pressures which drive the health and beauty industries. This is at least somewhat true, but not in the way that they’re imagining; trans women are influenced by artificial beauty standards aimed at women because they’re women, not because the beauty industry has started marketing hyper-feminine beauty standards to men. I also suspect there may be some false equivalency between the health/beauty industry and cosmetic surgery; if so, the social and economic dynamics of the two are quite different even if the pressures feel very similar.

Missouri Republicans #wingnut

This is all about middle-class conservative white people feeling terrorized by the mere existence of everyone else, to the point where they feel the need to terrorize everyone else right back.

The Critical Drinker #wingnut #sexist

In most cases, deliberate misgendering isn’t about upholding bioessentialism; it’s about bullying people for not falling into narrow sex/gender norms. Thus they’re willing to call anyone “a man”, “not a man”, “a woman”, “not a woman” whichever they think will hurt most, rather than what they actually believe to be true.

Of course, this can backfire, if they don’t actually know the person’s gender, or if it’s a gender-nonconforming person who considers it a compliment that they’re seen as not “properly” performing their gender.

@lexmagnum #wingnut #conspiracy

Even back during those days, “10 years” would have been overly alarmist; I’m not aware of any serious sources which said such a thing. Particularly egregious here is the Ice Age one, as it was expected to be centuries before the impact would really be felt and millennia to fully plunge into a new glacial period. Unlike the others, it was not expected to be a significant concern within anyone’s lifetimes.

For everything else, it was a case of “if this is true, then it will be less expensive to do something now rather than later.” The Ozone Layer and Acid Rain aren’t major issues today because we *did* take preventative measures. Peak oil happened as predicted (which was in 40-50 years, not 10, and was never expected to be the “dropping off a cliff” strawman scenario) but didn’t have as severe of an impact as expected because it resulted in greater energy efficiency and a revolution in alternate energy sources which the oil companies had been suppressing. The one thing which we have not been doing nearly enough about is climate change, and we have been feeling the early impact of it for basically all of the 21st century thus far; it’s reached the point of where the ice caps will mostly or entirely melt, it’s merely a matter of when… unless we start sucking CO2 out of the air.

I’m a little surprised that they didn’t also include 1950s: Malthusian Catastrophe in 10 years.

@EepOpOrk #wingnut

These types of people are all like “behold the horrors of socialism!” and then they show pictures of Dallas or Detroit.

Allie Beth Stuckey #wingnut #transphobia

The Right Wing blog-o-sphere been all over Tucker Carlson’s hot take on Biden’s the State of the Union Address, particularly the brief parts about abortion and trans youth. I want to say that it was “inflammatory and barely adjacent to reality”, but that’s just normal Tucker. He was doing the dialed-up-to-11 deranged nonsense which we more often see from the likes of Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh. Regardless, the current uptick in “Libs sacrifice the unborn to Moloch and mutilate 5-year olds” like the OP can be traced entirely to Tuckums.

[Edit: Because it was not made clear, I meant to say that Tucker mostly focused on the parts of the SOTU Address which involved abortion and trans kids despite that these were only minor parts of the Address.]

State Sen. Daniel Emrich #crackpot #wingnut #fundie

While this is obviously intended to target evolutionary biology and cosmology, depending on how broadly “observational” is defined, it could also impact certain subsets of geology, ecology, paleontology, psychology, and quantum mechanics. Also misapplied and/or misinterpreted statistics could potentially be considered “observational” enough to be teach-worthy, if these people go full-bore into promoting political agendas masquerading as science.

@AthenasWrench & @piotr3 #transphobia

Funny how it requires drugs and medical intervention to be your “authentic self”.

I have a very different conceptualization of this, which goes far beyond trans people.

The “possibility space” of all possible beings includes beings which have aspects which are severe mismatches with other aspects of themselves, resulting in dysfunction (and misery, if they can experience that). Said beings coming to accept themselves to the point where they would not change themselves given the opportunity despite the benefits of doing so (presuming, they are even capable of accepting that, which some will not be) doesn’t make that dysfunction go away. At best it hides the dysfunction from other beings, for their personal safety and/or the benefit of some of those other beings.

Humans exist in an extremely tiny, narrow portion of the “possibility space of all possible beings”, but unless you’re going to take the view that humans are “created” in some sense (not necessarily by a creator being) to be specifically lacking in such contradictions (which is delusional, I mean, have you ever met a human?), you can’t really claim that some people wouldn’t be better off if they were altered in some sense. I mean, you can come up with some moral or practical reasoning why certain types of alteration shouldn’t be allowed, or perhaps even reasons why “misery for some is a good thing, actually”, but you do need to actually come up with the reasoning rather than be cynically or flippantly dismissive about it.

timjoebob #crackpot #wingnut #quack #ufo

Huh, I interpreted this one a bit differently than other people here, I thought they were essentially accusing Q-anon and/or anti-vaxxers of holding back humanity from ascension to 5D.

Regardless, the “I am extruh sooper speshul because I am aware of the aliens/beings who will uplift some/all humanity” types really annoy me.

Apolitical #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #pratt #racist #wingnut

you have to believe in the holocaust as the underpinning of morality for our entire society

It feels like the OP started with this idea and worked their way backwards. Regardless, they fail morality forever; “genocide is bad” and “the holocaust was genocide” are conclusions which can reasonably be drawn from nearly every system of morality, not premises which the system is based on. While it’s certainly possible to create a circular-logic system of morality, I’m not aware of any which starts off with the specific premise that “the holocaust was bad”. At minimum you’d have to explain the existence of every system of morality which predates WWII by centuries or millennia and comes to the same conclusions.

Paul Bury #wingnut #fundie #senpai_noticed_us

femsolid #sexist

All infants and most toddlers are largely sociopathic. Most commonly people slowly grow out of it around ages of 2-5, though it varies between individuals (it’s entirely possible to mostly grow out of it by age 1, or to never do so). This is not specific to boys. This also doesn’t mean that very young children aren’t completely incapable of learning how to behave, though again it varies some.

You may have noticed that even very young boys (or those seen as boys) are, on the average, more rambunctious than girls. That’s not due to inherent nature (there may be a slight differences due to boys lacking a second X chromosome, but at most it’s only slight) but to the fact that a lot of parents let their AMAB kids get away with things which they don’t so easily do so with their AFAB kids. In other words, it’s cultural.

Andrew Anglin #fundie #sexist #wingnut

When women are liberated, they have higher expectations. So, because their expectations are not met, they become unhappy because they have new expectations from feminism. And it’s like, well, Occam’s Razor: the most obvious thing is that women don’t actually get any happiness from this liberation.

Uh-huh. No. While some women are unhappy, so are some men, “liberation” is almost never the reason for that. Your narrow focus and lack of imagination for other possibilities doesn’t reflect reality.

You’re not going to have a woman voluntarily submit to you; you have to force her. That’s the reality. You have to dominate the woman, and even if you do think you have dominance, she’s gonna keep pushing you. […] So it’s a lifelong thing to try and wrangle this bitch like a wild horse, but a horse [eventually] breaks.

Keep your Gorean fantasies to yourself or post them in an appropriate BDSM forum, asshat. Your fetishes aren’t reality either.

Peter B. Meyer #conspiracy #quack #wingnut

“Radiation from 5G phones and wifi” spread disease? Computer viruses, maybe, but that can’t affect living things. Unless reality is a simulation, but I’d have a hard time imagining how simulated computers could affect reality itself, or for that matter why it would limit itself only to biological matter if it could.

EJ Rosetta #transphobia #dunning-kruger

To add to @KeithInc., while there are many uses for the term, the most common use of “cistern” has always been “rainwater collection/storage tank”. Sure, it was very common for “water closets¹” to draw their water from a cistern in that sense, especially prior to modern plumbing, but so did the bathtubs and sinks. ~~I suspect they’re thinking cistern means “septic tank”, which says more about them than anything else.~~ [Correction, see below]

¹From what I’ve been able to find, “toilette” originally mean “changing-room table” in the mid-1500s, then it later meant “hygienic cleaning cloth” in the early-1700s, and then became a synonym for “washroom” (and the spelling changed to “toilet” in English) in the mid-1800s, while the “water closet” was a separate section for the “flushing privy / flushing latrine” at first, before referring to the privy/latrine itself… around 1920 the word “toilet” (washroom) started commonly being used to refer to the “water closet” (toilet) and the room itself started being called “restroom” and/or “bathroom”. That’s a long, strange linguistic journey.

[Edit: After posting this, it occurred to me that what I know as a “toilet tank” might technically be called a cistern. After checking, apparently it is. Scratch the part about septic tanks, but it’s still dumb… who even thinks that? I’m not sure whether most people even know that usage.]

@alexbloodfire #transphobia

I’ve said it before, but someday an AFAB woman will get a penis, and still call herself a woman. That’s going to wreck a lot of their arguments and cause some conniption fits. I’m sure they’ll come up with new arguments, of course, but those will be an even harder sell in a world which will hopefully be even more hostile to their current ones.

Andrew Anglin #racist #homophobia #wingnut

I thiiink the “Nurgle” association is basically “Ukraine isn’t rabidly anti-gay like Russia, gay people spread disease, therefore Ukraine is pro-disease spreading”. If not, I got nothing.

Regardless, screw you, Khornite.

BeamBrain #moonbat

I’m going to guess that this is at least in part about there having been pre-WW2 liberals who were eugenicists (mostly the type who supported involuntary sterilization of disabled people) and the Nazis did a lot to sour people on the concept.

It feels strange, though, how some people keep trying to associate fascism with the left. I mean, who on the left has actually ever venerated Hitler and Mussolini, then or now? You get a few tankies who are fans of Franco, but that’s not at all common even among that tiny subgroup, and that’s as close as it gets. Meanwhile virtually all of the fans of actual historical fascists are on the right. In addition, strong nationalism is a fundamental component of fascism, which has never been a popular idea on the left.

I realize that in most cases it’s an extremely shallow association which is barely more than “fascism = bad, liberals = bad, therefore liberals = fascist”, but it still feels strange.

Utah republicans #transphobia

the government should not “usurp the power of parents” when deciding the best course of action for their children.

They’ve never been very consistent on this point. On one hand, it’s a common argument on the Right that parents should have near-absolute power over their children, up to and including the ability to override any medical decisions involving them, and the government shouldn’t get involved in that. On the other hand, it’s also a common argument on the Right that parents should not be allowed to make certain kinds of decisions on behalf of their children for said children’s protection, and the government *should* get involved in that.

How that shakes up for trans children is that parents can freely veto transgender-related care, because parents have absolute rights, but if they decide otherwise, the government can and should step in and veto it, because parents *don’t* have absolute rights. Even if not everyone takes both positions, the result is still a logically and morally incoherent justification for any policy they might put forward. And this isn’t even just about trans kids; they do things like this for just about anything involving “protecting” children.

Abby Johnson #sexist #wingnut

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The “except for my daughter or my mistress” contingent isn’t in any position to throw stones.

Elvis Dunderhoff #sexist #psycho

I checked some news articles to make sure this was real. One of the things which I noticed was that he wasn’t puposefully “putting them on a diet”, he just didn’t care enough to feed them sometimes. Which is not actually any better, it’s just notable that the writer of the Daily Stormer article seems to be misinterpreting intent.

Jordan Sather #wingnut #conspiracy

Add to what KeithInc. said: Once a group becomes large and influential enough, you’re going to get people who join up just to keep track of what’s going on, in case the group in question turns too violent, too destructive, or too disruptive to the status quo. This is somewhat paradoxical with modern leaderless movements, though; much as the FBI would love to “infiltrate antifa” (as an example) antifa isn’t an organization or even a specific set of beliefs, and most individual groups are too small to be worth the money and effort. With Qanon, however, nobody even needs to infiltrate them. We can see you, dumbasses, and that’s mostly your own doing.

Andreas Moritz #crackpot #dunning-kruger #quack

And in my next book, I will explain that broken bones are caused by athleticism, and will teach people how to avoid exercising.

William Shaw, Galvatron Stephens #sexist

In other words, just like men?

(While flippant, I’m not even joking. At least when it comes to rape and sexual assault, anti-feminists usually frame the victim, who is usually a woman, as having zero agency and infinite responsibility, even if that’s not quite their intent… while ignoring the part played attacker, who is usually a man, effectively giving them infinite agency and zero responsibility.)

Hadley Freeman #transphobia

It’s sounds like they’re taking actual feminist allies who support intersectionalism, bad male “allies” who are mostly into it for the accolades and/or hopes of getting laid, and Men’s Rightists, and then lumping them all into a single group, despite the vastly different beliefs and attitudes of those three groups.

Tucker Carlson #conspiracy #crackpot #psycho #quack

@Vanto #154538

At this point, if Tucker came out and revealed his show was actually satire all along, I’d probably be inclined to believe him.

He already has, sort of. He’s been sued twice for defamation, and both times used the defense that his show was satire and only an idiot would believe anything he says on-air. (He won the 2018 lawsuit, likely in part because unlike Alex Jones, he didn’t keep doubling down. The second lawsuit is still ongoing.) So the real question is, does he really think so little of his audience, is he “lying for Jesus” (saying things he knows are false for some perceived greater good), or does he have zero scruples and will simply say whatever Roger Ailes’s minions in the writer’s room hand off to him? I would tend to think the latter, but who really knows.

Feynman & Coulter's Love Child #racist #homophobia

I can’t say as to exact percentages, but there’s a reason why refugees from many places are disproportionately men, or rather young men; it’s because in places where women have less rights, power, and access to resources, and where men don’t typically have access to a lot of resources until they hit their 30s, young, single men have the easiest time fleeing and little to lose by doing so. And then because soldiers are typically young men it’s easy to jump to “invading army” if you’re looking for a reason to justify racism or xenophobia.

various commenters #transphobia

So… they’re basically arguing that transmedicalists are the only “real” trans people? Or at least on the border of going there.

(To the best of my knowledge, trasmedicalists believe in some version of a One True Trans Way™ which virtually always includes severe genital dysphoria, plus a laundry list of other things which vary somewhat. Anyone who doesn’t meet their exacting standards is a “trender” who’s just going through a phase or pretending to be trans in order to get attention. Also they believe that non-binary genders aren’t real.)

TELOS-USA #crackpot #ufo #magick

Uh, what? 4.5 mya isn’t even Australopithecus, our closest relatives back then were Ardipithecus. Which was about half a million years removed from the last common ancestors of humans and bonobos (i.e. the split occurred roughly 5 mya). Are you going to claim that the “lost continents” had civilizations run by non-human apes who *at best* could barely walk upright any better than modern ones, or was there time travel involved?

Edit: I realized later that if they were trying to be “scientific” and date it from early homo sapiens then they were off by a factor of 10 - that is, they might have meant 450,000 BCE instead of 4,500,000 BCE. Still idiotic though.

Catturd #dunning-kruger #quack

@Croquemitaine #154393

Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. He’s still around, unfortunately, having been reelected in 2020. For reference, the quote was: “In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, you know what this is? It’s a snowball. And that’s just from outside here. So it’s very, very cold out.”

Meh. Treatment, cure, what’s the diff?

transnazi #wingnut #dunning-kruger

Hitler was intersex, not non-binary. I mean this whole thing is stupid on multiple levels, but if you can’t even distinguish those concepts you’ve already proven you’re hopeless.

wdcipher #dunning-kruger #transphobia #wingnut

Joe Allen #conspiracy #wingnut #fundie

Xenophobia against robots? That's a new one. I mean, if they weren't built/made/programmed in your own country, then it sort of makes sense... but otherwise they're only "invaders" in a very abstract sense.

I can't speak for anyone else, but if we ever reach the point of there being artificial people in some form, I intend to embrace them as a further form of diversity. The "artificial" part doesn't negate the "people" part.

(Which does not at all mean that I'd embrace robo-supremacists. That's still bigotry.)

Paul Craig Roberts #wingnut #racist #conspiracy

Adding to what everyone else is saying, the OP was a child during that time. I was also a child during the pre-internet world, (if not as old) and I didn't know any children other than myself who actually read the newspaper for anything other than the comics. Also my experience with adults is that they didn't talk much about anything that was going on and told me not to be concerned about things because "kids shouldn't worry". Does the OP really not remember what that was like? (Clearly yes.)

Clif High #wingnut #conspiracy

Re: “Normies”. There’s this bias where the people you interact with the most frequently feel more “quirky” and “different” because you know nearly every little detail about them. Meanwhile with other people you don’t know nearly as much about them, and with social groups you’re not part of it’s far easier to see what they have in common than what’s individually different. People you don’t know at all can seem like an undifferentiated mass of nobodies, even if you know that it’s not really true. This is often worse among social outcasts, as they have even less interaction with people outside their tiny circles. Taken to extremes, this bias can result in the mindset of most people being seen as “normies” or “muggles” or “sheeple” or worst of all, “NPCs”.

Of course some people don’t get at all into politics or global happenings or social movements or whatever, because they’re not all that interested or way too busy, so they just kind of go with the flow with things that they’re not in any place to understand, or rely on trusted figures if they really need to. But even for those people, that’s a rather uncharitable attitude to make towards them, and the fact that other people *do* get into those things to various extents is proof that the public isn’t just all one homogenous mass.

Also, I would argue that hardcore Conspiracy Theorists don’t get all into politics or global happenings or social movements either, which is one of many reasons why they sound so out of touch and like total idiots to other people. Just a little bit of experience with the things you’re blathering about would clear up some of your glaring fundamental errors, dolts.

Mr. Ed #crackpot #ufo #magick #wingnut #conspiracy

Sure, sure. I have things like that, their molecular assembly/disassembly/rearrangement arrays move at nearly light speed, the sonic booms destroy my house and the heat bursts flash-fry my neighborhood, but aren’t they totally awesome?

Look, I’m totally hoping to live to see a sci-fi future, but you have to be realistic. Most sci-fi writers have no sense of scale (and that includes at the submicroscopic level), so they end up inventing ideas for future technology which are basically magic. “New physics” or “dark aliens” are not, at present, a realistic explanation for anything, any more than “fairy dust” or “leprechauns” are.

BondiBlue #transphobia #enbyphobia #ableist

I was tempted to say “the next target would be the gays and lesbians… and after that, women.” But this one seems to be a bit smarter than that, it appears they just really hope/believe that they can convert enough of the left and center to GC/TERF ideologies.

The last paragraph… that’s a really thorny issue. There do exist people with certain disabilities, physical conditions, or whatever, who are afraid of their communities being “cured” out of existence - if for no reason other than conditions like theirs being eliminated from future generations. As well as similar people who are not part of those communities (or have very limited participation in them) who resent such attitudes, like the OP. That’s a bit of a clusterfuck that will need to be dealt with eventually, but it’s not at the point where the technology’s really there or the general public has much reason to pay attention to it.

schml #wingnut #crackpot

Pretending for a moment that this makes any kind of sense, if any side makes it about right and wrong, then it's about more than just winning and losing. Failing to at least acknowledge that and account for it makes any victory more difficult and more temporary.

Vladimir Solovyov #crackpot #elitist #fundie #god-complex #psycho #wingnut

Yeah, no. Dying for an "intangible dream" shouldn't be on anyone's bucket list. Even with a "higher cause" you'd better be damn sure it's worth the risk, because you might die for nothing.

hate2breakittoya & thewoesofyaoi #kinkshaming #moonbat

Going to say here that using BDSM as a way to work through one's sexual assault trauma isn't always a great idea, it does seem to work for some people. I'm no expert in this area, and I'm not sure if anyone is, but I suspect it works similar to exposure therapy. Expose someone to a thing in small, controlled doses, when they've had a chance to prepare, and the memory of the experience gradually loses its ability to cause fear/pain. It's not retraumatizing for some people if they do it right.

Of course there also exist very rare people with self-trauma fetishes, and I really have no idea what to make of that from a mental health standpoint. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But you shouldn't just assume that this is the case.